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by Lindsay Shelton What’s the best way for a pedestrian or a cyclist to cross four lanes of traffic on Cobham Drive? After some years of indecision, the people at LGWM this week came up with the answer. (And no, it’s not the design that is shown above.) Traffic lights are the choice made by LGWM. It’s not a choice that everyone supports. As Benoit Pette points out today on his Inside Wellington blog: The traffic light option has already been consulted on, with a petition where +7,500 people said they favoured a bridge or an underpass. The number of signees is significant and I wonder ...

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Report from Benoit Pette Following a year-long process to rally the community and engage with Eastern ward Councillors, two meetings have been organised at the Wellington City Council between No-Fly Zone, members of the Wellington Aero Club, City Councillors and the Airport (although the latter only attended the first one). The meetings were to discuss the noise inflicted on residents (especially Miramar North, Roseneath and Lyall Bay) by recreational air traffic when the Aero Club runs the circuit. This issue had become particularly clear following lockdown, where many residents had experie...

by Lindsay Shelton What a strange year. “Our” Wellington Phoenix moved to Australia and we were all sent invitations via twitter to watch their games in Woollongong. Not that we could actually travel there. There was however no immediate sign that they were planning to become the Woollongong Phoenix. For almost all of us, domestic flights were the only possibility, if we felt a yen for travel. And we’ve accepted the need to wear masks on planes. But not on buses or trains. We haven’t adjusted so well to the need for covid scanning. Every time I paused to scan at a shop entrance this ...

by Benoit Pette 2020. A year to remember, or forget? At an individual level, and as a city, how have we fared through this unprecedented period? Have we learned from it and have we taken actions to correct our course? Are we more confident than we were a year ago, that Wellington is the city of our aspirations, led by an inspiring City Council with our interests at heart? Has the Council led by example and made this city better to live in? Are we happier than a year ago to live here in Wellington? Sadly, and in all honesty, it would be difficult to answer these questions with a straight, war...